Measuring Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780415446495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 163 str.

Todd Landman;Edzia Carvalho

Opis

The measurement of human rights has long been debated throughout the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights.

Written by leading experts in the field, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on how to measure human rights.

Measuring Human Rights:

• draws explicitly on the extant international law of human rights to derive the content of human rights that ought to be measured
• contains a comprehensive methodological framework for operationalizing this human rights content into human rights measures
• includes separate chapters on the methods, strengths and weaknesses of events-based measures, standards-based measures, survey-based measures, and official statistics
• covers measures of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights
• is written with one authorial ‘voice’
• in addition to standard bibliographic references, it also includes lists of sources and locations for extant data sets useful for the measurement of human rights.

This volume offers a wonderful new addition to this important area of work in the field of human rights, and will be of interest to academics and NGOs, INGOs, international governmental organizations, international financial institutions, and national governments themselves.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Content of Human Rights  3. Measuring Human Rights  4. Events-Based Measures  5. Standards-Based Measures  6. Survey-Based Measures  7. Socio-Economic and Administrative Statistics  8. Conclusion

O autorze

Todd Landman is Professor in the Department of Government and a Member of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He is author of many books, including Studying Human Rights (2006), Protecting Human Rights (2005), and Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics (2000, 2003, and 2008).

Edzia Carvalho is currently researching her PhD on public health policy in India in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. She has an MA in Human Rights (Essex 2006), and an MA in International Relations (Mumbai 2003).